Crusade
Meaning of Crusade
noun
- each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
the fanaticism engendered by the Crusades
in 1204 the armies of the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople
- a vigorous campaign for political, social, or religious change.
a crusade against crime
- lead or take part in a vigorous campaign for social, political, or religious change.
he crusaded against gambling in the 1950s
late 16th century (originally as croisade ): from French croisade, an alteration (influenced by Spanish cruzado ) of earlier croisée, literally ‘the state of being marked with the cross’, based on Latin crux, cruc- ‘cross’; in the 17th century the form crusado, from Spanish cruzado, was introduced. The blending of these two forms led to the current spelling, first recorded in the early 18th century.
Information about Crusade
- The plural form of Crusade is: Crusades.
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Hyphenation of Crusade
Cru-sade
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- Crusade is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Crusade synonyms
Meaning campaign:
campaign, cause, drive, movement, effort
Meaning fight:
fight, press, campaign, push, agitate
Meaning a change of place, position, or state:
Meaning a forceful or violent effort to get free of restraint or resist attack:
Meaning a sustained fight between large organized armed forces:
Meaning a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country:
Meaning an attacking military campaign:
Meaning be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a result; do work:
Meaning struggle or fight vigorously:
Meaning seek to influence (a legislator) on an issue:
Meaning vigorously support or defend the cause of:
Meaning support or actively encourage (a cause, venture, etc.); further the progress of:
Anagrams of Crusade
Words that rhyme with Crusade
Sade, sade, demipesade, lancepesade, pesade, camisade, croisade, palisade, pavisade, jamrosade, torsade, ambassade, anspessade, embassade, glissade, passade, tsade, arquebusade, crusade, harquebusade
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